Is Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection life long?

People with immunoreactivity to tuberculosis are thought to have lifelong asymptomatic infection and remain at risk for active tuberculosis. Marcel A Behr and colleagues argue that most of these people are no longer infected

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Veröffentlicht in:	BMJ (Online) 2019-10, Vol.367, p.l5770-l5770
Hauptverfasser:	Behr, Marcel A, Edelstein, Paul H, Ramakrishnan, Lalita
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections - immunology AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections - microbiology Analysis Antigens, Bacterial - immunology Arthritis Asymptomatic infection Bacteria Humans Immunocompromised Host Immunology Immunoreactivity Immunosuppression - adverse effects Infections Infectious diseases Latent Tuberculosis - diagnosis Latent Tuberculosis - immunology Latent Tuberculosis - microbiology Mycobacterium tuberculosis - immunology Mycobacterium tuberculosis - physiology Stem cells Tissue Transplantation - adverse effects Transplants & implants Tuberculosis Tuberculosis - immunology Tuberculosis - microbiology Tumor necrosis factor-TNF Virus Activation - immunology
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Zusammenfassung:	People with immunoreactivity to tuberculosis are thought to have lifelong asymptomatic infection and remain at risk for active tuberculosis. Marcel A Behr and colleagues argue that most of these people are no longer infected
ISSN:	0959-8138 1756-1833
DOI:	10.1136/bmj.l5770